Hi everybody! Sorry I haven’t written in so long -- I was busy. But I have some great news. Before I can tell you my great news. I have to tell you the background.
I go to an IB (International Baccalaureate) school. At IB schools at the end of primary, the Grade 5 class does an exhibition about certain topics. I chose to do poverty. One of our requirements is to take action, i.e. volunteering, donating, etc. If you know me I have shoulder length hair which, lately, has been driving me crazy.
When I was about six I had waist length blonde hair. I decided to donate it to Locks of Love. Locks of Love takes hair that has been donated, turns it into wigs, and gives it to underprivileged children that have cancer. Well, I did it again!!!!!!!! My hair is now short and I like it. See the picture attached.We also took action by going to UNICEF and sorting out donated coins. THERE WERE HUNDREDS!!!!!!!!!! It was a very long process. First you had to sort out the coins (we were sorting RMB) into $1’s 50 cents and 10 cents. Then, you stacked them into the plate in groups of ten. Lastly you had to stick 5 lots of 10 into a tiny plastic bag and seal it. We went through about a hundred coins. My hands smelled so bad and were so dirty!!!!! But, I’m glad I did it.
So, that is the “Taking Action” part of poverty done. Now we have to work on the presentation. We are doing an A-Z Poverty Book (done), a diorama of a slum in poverty (done), a song (done), a poster (needs to get done), and Free Rice. Free rice is a Quiz website that, for every question that you get right, 10 grains of rice get given to people in hunger.
Here is the website: http://www.freerice.com/
Our exhibition is on May 7th & 8th. I will write another blog on how it goes.
BYE!!! : P
